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they were both in dagestan last year. according to police, he ran a training camp in the woods and made these videos demonstrating how to make and prepare homemade explosives or use a cell phone as a detonator. and, says the local police chief, the militants trained foreigners. >> what did the foreigners learn? >> i can't talk about the number of foreigners, but they met to exchange their banded experience. >> he says the mill tants trained men who live in other countries. >> there are reports that dujan was observed at the mosque and he was observed meeting tsarnaev. do you know this? >> translator: i really can't answer this. for different reasons, i can't answer. you understand me? >> did abudujan and tamerlan meet? we don't know. this past december, they were killed when russian special forces hit their hideout. >> maybe he's a hero, the brother, maybe he isn't. but tamerlan watches these videos and then this individual gets killed. now, logic would tell you, who would you be mad at? runners in the boston marathon? wh
they were both in dagestan last year. according to police, he ran a training camp in the woods and made these videos demonstrating how to make and prepare homemade explosives or use a cell phone as a detonator. and, says the local police chief, the militants trained foreigners. >> what did the foreigners learn? >> i can't talk about the number of foreigners, but they met to exchange their banded experience. >> he says the mill tants trained men who live in other countries....
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he made his way to dagestan, a rigs republic next to his family's homeland now also a part of russia. >> he could radiate light and warmth. >> his extended family in dagestan welcomed him warmly. >> translator: he smiled a lot. and i asked him, is this your customary american smile? he was more of an american. >> much of what tamerlan tsarnaev did here remain as miss terrorist we know he stayed for some weeks here at his parents' home keeping mostly to family and friends, helping his father out in his businesses around town, and often sleeping in. the tsarnaev family is part of the chechen community here, like many other chechens displaced from their homeland. after the second world war, tens of thousands chechens paerished in a massive slaughter ordered by josef stalin. dzhokhar was born and given the name of a chechen leader. >> it's a sure sign of chechen patriotism in the family that in 1993 they called their little son after the pro independence president. >> but chechen independence wouldn't last. another war with russia would kill thousands and chechen extremists would wage a c
he made his way to dagestan, a rigs republic next to his family's homeland now also a part of russia. >> he could radiate light and warmth. >> his extended family in dagestan welcomed him warmly. >> translator: he smiled a lot. and i asked him, is this your customary american smile? he was more of an american. >> much of what tamerlan tsarnaev did here remain as miss terrorist we know he stayed for some weeks here at his parents' home keeping mostly to family and...
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he made his way to dagestan, a russian republic, next to his family's ancestral homeland chechnya, today also a part of russia. >> translator: he could radiate light and warmth. >> his extended family in dagestan welcomed him warmly. >> he smiled a lot, and i asked him is this your customary american smile? he was more of an american. >> much of what tamerlan tsarnaev did here remains a mystery. we know he stayed for some weeks here at his parent's home, keeping mostly to family and friends, helping his father out in his businesses around town and often sleeping in. the tsarnaev family is part of the chechen community here. like many other chechens displaced from their homeland. after the second world war, tens of thousands of chechens perished in a mass deportation order by josef stalin. in the 1990s, chechens fought and won a bloody war for independence from russia. it was during this violence that the younger tsarnaev brother dzhokhar was born and given the name of a chechen leader. >> it's a sure side of chechen patriotism in the family that in 1939 they called their little son dzhok
he made his way to dagestan, a russian republic, next to his family's ancestral homeland chechnya, today also a part of russia. >> translator: he could radiate light and warmth. >> his extended family in dagestan welcomed him warmly. >> he smiled a lot, and i asked him is this your customary american smile? he was more of an american. >> much of what tamerlan tsarnaev did here remains a mystery. we know he stayed for some weeks here at his parent's home, keeping mostly...
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the 19-years-old college student was planning to return to dagestan last summer, arriving just as older brother tamerlan was returning from a six month stay there. my pass woport is not going to e in time. she needs to chill out. i'll find my own honey. tsarnaev take as train to washington d.c. complaining about a noisy child. saying new york looks dirty from afar, but zoom in and it gets real dirty. new york is so ratchet on black friday, it's ridiculous. i'm to bed soon. religion seems to be of growing importance over the last year. quote, brothers at the mosque either think i'm a convert or i'm from algeria or syria. on another occasion he shares, spent the day with this jamaican muslim convert. my religion is truth. other tweets are of interest to investigators. i will die young. several months later in august, boston marathon isn't good place to smoke. in january of this year, quote, i got those brothers that i'd take a bullet for in the leg or shoulder or something, nothing fatal though. quote, if you have the knowledge and the inspiration, all that is left is to take action. >> r
the 19-years-old college student was planning to return to dagestan last summer, arriving just as older brother tamerlan was returning from a six month stay there. my pass woport is not going to e in time. she needs to chill out. i'll find my own honey. tsarnaev take as train to washington d.c. complaining about a noisy child. saying new york looks dirty from afar, but zoom in and it gets real dirty. new york is so ratchet on black friday, it's ridiculous. i'm to bed soon. religion seems to be...
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and dagestan officials earlier in the week. nick paton walsh is in the tsarnaev hometown right now. you met and talked to both the mother and father this week, do we know where they went? >> we know they were pretty anxious to retain their privacy after what's obviously been a very difficult week, a lot of media here and on top of that the accusations against both of their sons and investigation by the fbi and russian security. we have though made our own journey to look into the past of this particular family. and being inside the town chechnya, the war-torn the heart of all the volatility of this region and being to the hometown of tsarnaev family there. heading into chechnya you feel the weight of two brutal wars. for an independence moscow would never allow. its ruins rebuilt over the only upside of the kremlin's heavy hand, the tsarnaev's family identity was forged here. we found their hometown and what's left of the family home. in its ruins lie the brutalized past the brothers must have grown up with. tamerlan fled this
and dagestan officials earlier in the week. nick paton walsh is in the tsarnaev hometown right now. you met and talked to both the mother and father this week, do we know where they went? >> we know they were pretty anxious to retain their privacy after what's obviously been a very difficult week, a lot of media here and on top of that the accusations against both of their sons and investigation by the fbi and russian security. we have though made our own journey to look into the past of...
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abu dijan and tamerlan were both in dagestan last year. according to dagestani police abu dijan's group ran a training camp in the woods and made these videos, demonstrating how to mix and prepare homemade explosives or use cell phones as a detonator. and says the local police chief, the militants trained foreigners. >> what did the foreigners learn in the woods? >> translator: i can't talk about the number of foreigners, but they met to exchange their bandit experience. >> reporter: he says the militants trained chechen men who live in other countries. >> there are reports that dujan was observed at the mosque and he was observed meeting tsarnaev. do you know this? >> translator: i really can't answer this. for different reasons i can't answer. do you understand me? >> reporter: did abu dujan and tamerlan meet? we don't know. this past december abu dujan and other militants were killed when russian special forces hit their hideout. >> maybe he's a hero of the brother. maybe he isn't. but tamerlan watches these videos, and then this indivi
abu dijan and tamerlan were both in dagestan last year. according to dagestani police abu dijan's group ran a training camp in the woods and made these videos, demonstrating how to mix and prepare homemade explosives or use cell phones as a detonator. and says the local police chief, the militants trained foreigners. >> what did the foreigners learn in the woods? >> translator: i can't talk about the number of foreigners, but they met to exchange their bandit experience. >>...
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they trace them not only to dagestan but also to chechnya. our nick paton walsh went to chechnya today. >> reporter: heading into chechnya you feel the weight of two brutal wars. for an independence moscow would never allow. its ruins rebuilt over the only upside of the kremlin's heavy hand. the tsarnaev family's identity was forged here. we found their hometown, what's left of the family home. in its ruins lie the brutalized past the brothers must have grown up with. tamerlan fled this town when he was about 11 before the second war began and this street was bombed. it's hard to be a chechen without a tie to your homeland. and these ruins bombed out in the first chechen war are what's left of the family home of the father to the alleged boston bombers. their great uncle remembers a devoutly religious tamerlan from last year but also them as children. >> translator: they were this big, but i didn't see them after that. and they weren't involved in that crazy stuff. >> reporter: i show him tamerlan's picture from online. >> translator: that's
they trace them not only to dagestan but also to chechnya. our nick paton walsh went to chechnya today. >> reporter: heading into chechnya you feel the weight of two brutal wars. for an independence moscow would never allow. its ruins rebuilt over the only upside of the kremlin's heavy hand. the tsarnaev family's identity was forged here. we found their hometown, what's left of the family home. in its ruins lie the brutalized past the brothers must have grown up with. tamerlan fled this...
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so they had something very specific on the ground in chechnya or dagestan. i would be very interested to know what that was, what group he was associated with, was he going to training camps. and i completely agree, there is no explanation for going to dagestan for six months. if you've ever been there, it's not a kind of place you would take vacation. you know, it's a place where you would run into militants, and somebody like him who had converted himself to militant islam would go out and look for them. what do the russians know, who did he see? remember, zawahiri was there, was arrested. zacarias how sawy was there, and more than that go for military experience. my question is that where he got his, if he did have some. >> right. tom fuentes formerly with the fbi, your sources tell cnn the information the russians provided was extremely thin. but that said, the russians were right, this guy was apparently up to no good. how did he slip through the cracks? >> we still don't know what no good he was up to. he was reported, investigated here to the extent h
so they had something very specific on the ground in chechnya or dagestan. i would be very interested to know what that was, what group he was associated with, was he going to training camps. and i completely agree, there is no explanation for going to dagestan for six months. if you've ever been there, it's not a kind of place you would take vacation. you know, it's a place where you would run into militants, and somebody like him who had converted himself to militant islam would go out and...
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let me bring back nick in dagestan. by what you're hearing on the ground, is russia looking into possible connections between this militant? we'll put a picture up. abu dujon and tamerlan tsarnaev the 26-year-old, dead, alleged bomber in boston? >> russian officials, the fsb in moscow i spoke with have no comment thon case at all. that has been the case for quite sometime. that policeman we spoke to earlier on i put the question straight to him. he told us abu dujon went to this islamist mosque in the heart of the city several times, met other people the police considered extremists and of course we have heard from people around here it's entirely possible tamerlan tsarnaev may also have been to that mosque. we don't have concrete proof that the two men met at this point but the piece of the jigsaw are beginning to overlap at this point. it is entirely possible of course the opportunity was there. we just don't know if it was seized upon, wolf. >> so, peter, let's look ahead a little bit. the coming days. do you anticip
let me bring back nick in dagestan. by what you're hearing on the ground, is russia looking into possible connections between this militant? we'll put a picture up. abu dujon and tamerlan tsarnaev the 26-year-old, dead, alleged bomber in boston? >> russian officials, the fsb in moscow i spoke with have no comment thon case at all. that has been the case for quite sometime. that policeman we spoke to earlier on i put the question straight to him. he told us abu dujon went to this islamist...
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there are places in dagestan were officials have not been. so the possibility of someone going there for six months and not being exposed to radicals in one way or another strikes me as slim to none. >> it is not the place you would go fishing. >> among other things. that's right. it is also a place where you would expect someone that had the troubled biography this gentleman did, but an opinion on object of interest. i am more concerned about the six month and dagestan than the fact that the man is an ethnic chechen. >> let me retain my time. would you think that we should be concerned about that? especially if the russian government says -- they tell us two times this is somebody we should be concerned about. and all the sudden he comes back to the united states, maybe a customs official knew it, maybe he did not, but in the area of intelligence, that should raise a red flag. this is not something that should slip under the rug. >> it definitely poses a concern if we did not communicate properly who was visiting the area. i want to address
there are places in dagestan were officials have not been. so the possibility of someone going there for six months and not being exposed to radicals in one way or another strikes me as slim to none. >> it is not the place you would go fishing. >> among other things. that's right. it is also a place where you would expect someone that had the troubled biography this gentleman did, but an opinion on object of interest. i am more concerned about the six month and dagestan than the...
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about a decade ago after a year in dagestan in russia's north caucuses they're also believed to have lived in. new center of moscow eight pm moscow time it's kevin and he was you know good to have your company if so then the big story of the day we're covering for you the uncle of the suspects of the boston marathon bombing says they've shamed the entire chechen ethnicity.
about a decade ago after a year in dagestan in russia's north caucuses they're also believed to have lived in. new center of moscow eight pm moscow time it's kevin and he was you know good to have your company if so then the big story of the day we're covering for you the uncle of the suspects of the boston marathon bombing says they've shamed the entire chechen ethnicity.
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this seven-month stay by tamerlan in dagestan has led u.s. terror experts to speculate on what happened to tamerlan while in dagestan. here's one informed view." while it is too early to tell, i suspect that tamerlan was radicalized in the u.s. but used his months in dagestan to receive the military training and bomb-making skills needed for the boston attacks." so says glen howard, the president of 9 jamestown foundation, a d.c.-based think tank founded to help soviet dissidents. question. was there a lack of follow- through by the white house on the potential threat from chechen terrorism following our deal and our understanding with medvedev? >> i don't think we can blame it on the white house, john. but clearly the russians knew something about tamerlan when they got in touch with us. they had some information. we don't know exactly what it was. enough to go to the fbi and then go to the cia. and they believed that tamerlan was connected with chechen terrorists somehow in some way. and the idea that after all this he goes to dagestan, whi
this seven-month stay by tamerlan in dagestan has led u.s. terror experts to speculate on what happened to tamerlan while in dagestan. here's one informed view." while it is too early to tell, i suspect that tamerlan was radicalized in the u.s. but used his months in dagestan to receive the military training and bomb-making skills needed for the boston attacks." so says glen howard, the president of 9 jamestown foundation, a d.c.-based think tank founded to help soviet dissidents....
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the younger brother was planning to come here to dagestan this may and now their father plans a trip to the united states to bury his alza son time at a line so as for many here if she couldn't the woman couldn't really believe that they were involved in the tragedy. it's impossible to believe that they could have carried it out just impossible it's terrible. but if you believe their children who restricted their parents a lot of time or learned was very attentive to older people to use family for him have been was of use mother's feet both parents mobile phones are switched off or rarely own line and it's really impossible to reach them but i have since managed to speak to the mother of the two brothers and to be that's kept repeating their first son's were innocent she also mentioned that her eldest son tamerlan was under constant surveillance for years when both parents before mentioned that told them that the i would be i can talk to him right after the boston bombings and ask him for questioning however the outfield would be out later denied that information now as for the fathe
the younger brother was planning to come here to dagestan this may and now their father plans a trip to the united states to bury his alza son time at a line so as for many here if she couldn't the woman couldn't really believe that they were involved in the tragedy. it's impossible to believe that they could have carried it out just impossible it's terrible. but if you believe their children who restricted their parents a lot of time or learned was very attentive to older people to use family...
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never travel to dagestan in south russia where the mother lives to find out more about the family's back story. the investigation into the background of this have knives brothers has brought us here to this part of the capital of dagestan now this is the house where their parents left however as we try to reach them this morning it turned out that they fled to the neighboring region of chechnya to their relatives to avoid all the attention meanwhile this morning i managed to speak to the mother of the two brothers and she told me how devastated she is and that she still can't believe that her sons may have been involved in the bombings in our house nobody talked about the terrorist my son. or what they were. involved in the leader you know. i really do believe that's pretty high few years ago he was told by a b i like why . he knew they knew what my. what action what. we were going how could this happen how could be they were conjoined we. never ever heard this is not my sons are in and those neighbors we spoke to our shox they said that it was a very nice and a very quiet family. i know
never travel to dagestan in south russia where the mother lives to find out more about the family's back story. the investigation into the background of this have knives brothers has brought us here to this part of the capital of dagestan now this is the house where their parents left however as we try to reach them this morning it turned out that they fled to the neighboring region of chechnya to their relatives to avoid all the attention meanwhile this morning i managed to speak to the mother...
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dagestan is from life in cambridge, ma dagestan is the where the spillover from the two chechen wars is being felt to this day. it's a very, very violent place. it's a place where the russian army and government is the putting immense pressure on separatists and fundamentalists. there's a real cruel war taking place between a cruel government in moscow and very unzaire savory characters in dagestan and chechnya. this is no longer a matter of romantic nationalism, it's much more a matter of jihadi activity. so what the tsarnaev brothers started to focus in on wasn't just a matter -- >> rose: brothers or one? >> well, i think -- again, the picture seems to be that the younger brother follows the older brother. but the younger brother also is expressing these views on his twitter feed in so far as we can say. these are ideas that 140 characters at shot. sglaefrjtdz s they're starting to look at videos of deeply unsavory religious preachers. there's one named fez mohammed who's australian born who's based in so far as we know malaysia now. he'd been in liverpool and these videos are post
dagestan is from life in cambridge, ma dagestan is the where the spillover from the two chechen wars is being felt to this day. it's a very, very violent place. it's a place where the russian army and government is the putting immense pressure on separatists and fundamentalists. there's a real cruel war taking place between a cruel government in moscow and very unzaire savory characters in dagestan and chechnya. this is no longer a matter of romantic nationalism, it's much more a matter of...
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there two thousand and one in dagestan and then two thousand they only moved to the u.s. it doesn't sound to you like this could be the making of could take over and plant a block of a bomb in a marathon as big as the boston marathon. or never get free lancers we don't know maybe they had another issue maybe you know they didn't connect. me. with kind of connection around the world. peter peter lavelle they are. cross talk a host just giving us an insight they are not the north caucuses and if indeed there is any connection between the two suspects and the north caucuses we'll have more of that of course as we get more information now our team managed to talk to irina the secretary of the elementary school in dagestan where one of the suspects attended here's what she told us. the first grade and after just a year he left our school his family is from kurdistan there were food children in the family two sisters and two brothers in two thousand one hundred the school and in two thousand and two they left for the u.s. . well let's get more on that about the connection with
there two thousand and one in dagestan and then two thousand they only moved to the u.s. it doesn't sound to you like this could be the making of could take over and plant a block of a bomb in a marathon as big as the boston marathon. or never get free lancers we don't know maybe they had another issue maybe you know they didn't connect. me. with kind of connection around the world. peter peter lavelle they are. cross talk a host just giving us an insight they are not the north caucuses and if...
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tamerlan tsarnaev visited him when he traveled to dagestan last year. in the neighborhood where tamerlan and dzhokhar's father lives, the same sentiment. neighbors here on the street tell us they have a hard time believing what happened because they say the suspect's father is a good man. but the neighbors also say they haven't met the sons. dagestan is the russian federation's oldest, largest and most ethnically diverse islamic republic. its population of almost 3 million, predominantly muslim, has in recent years come under increased scrutiny by russian authorities. "they started closing our mosques and taking away our books," says this civil rights activist. and dagestan has attracted rebels from neighboring chechnya, hoping to spread a a pan-islamic separatist movement across the north caucasus region. investigators are still looking into whether tamerlan had any connection to militants in either dagestan or chechnya. adrian mong, nbc news, dagestan. >>> back in boston, this was a day of reflection as the dead and wounded were remembered, and the ci
tamerlan tsarnaev visited him when he traveled to dagestan last year. in the neighborhood where tamerlan and dzhokhar's father lives, the same sentiment. neighbors here on the street tell us they have a hard time believing what happened because they say the suspect's father is a good man. but the neighbors also say they haven't met the sons. dagestan is the russian federation's oldest, largest and most ethnically diverse islamic republic. its population of almost 3 million, predominantly...
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he applied again three months after returning from dagestan. it's hard to separate the political situation and what impact it might have it and his own personal emotional situation. >> absolutely. i read over the weekend everything i could about him, just think of one thing. he came back. he was denied his citizenship by the fbi. when he wanted to become a member of the u.s. olympic boxing team. >> he wants to represent our country at the olympics. >> yes. and so he was denied citizenship. may that have played a role in it? may he have become a sleeper cell? we don't know. we will find out. there are so many contradictions as you said particularly between him and his brother. i want to think -- i think it's important for us to understand that whatever may have happened here, we have got to focus more attention on the terrorist groups that are operating in dagestan that may now become the next source of al qaeda operatives against the united states. >> ambassador mark ginsburg, thank you for being with us. >>> today's tweet of the day comes from
he applied again three months after returning from dagestan. it's hard to separate the political situation and what impact it might have it and his own personal emotional situation. >> absolutely. i read over the weekend everything i could about him, just think of one thing. he came back. he was denied his citizenship by the fbi. when he wanted to become a member of the u.s. olympic boxing team. >> he wants to represent our country at the olympics. >> yes. and so he was denied...
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what is the reaction in dagestan? >> reporter: certainly people are trying to piece together how long they spent here. russian officials saying the sisters and the younger brother who are in custody now were only here five months. and the records we have seen shown they were in kazakhstan, and going to school for five months, and then in 2002, going to united states. and tamerlan, the older one that was deceased in the boston attacks, it's not clear when he arrived in the u.s., but he did get a green card in 2006. that gives us a five-year window potentially. we don't know where he was. he could have been in russia and he would have been here at a time of extremism. the fallout from the second chechen war ending in 2000, a time in which radicals were getting a grip on this impoverished part of the world. >> i know it's hard to generalized, but what are the general opinions there of the united states? >> reporter: well, i think broadly across russia, sort of a nationalistic taking back to the cold war feeling a slight
what is the reaction in dagestan? >> reporter: certainly people are trying to piece together how long they spent here. russian officials saying the sisters and the younger brother who are in custody now were only here five months. and the records we have seen shown they were in kazakhstan, and going to school for five months, and then in 2002, going to united states. and tamerlan, the older one that was deceased in the boston attacks, it's not clear when he arrived in the u.s., but he did...
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of the family came to dagestan in september two thousand and one when the boys rolled into a school then they apparently managed to get papers to leave dagestan they left in less than a year they didn't spend a long time here and they didn't grow up they first entered the school together with their two sisters back in two thousand and one however for a very short period of time in two thousand and two they left to the united states . or russia special services are also stress of the boston bombing suspects of a very tenuous connection to russia lived there for many years as we are just now here's what a source in the russian intelligence said quote since the brothers did not reside in russia or a special services could not provide our foreign partners in any valuable intelligence saddam but russian special services services are still nonetheless working closely with their american partners we got another quote as well saying quote we've established communications through the appropriate channels and our contacts will continue they were not. say now moscow warned against classing terroris
of the family came to dagestan in september two thousand and one when the boys rolled into a school then they apparently managed to get papers to leave dagestan they left in less than a year they didn't spend a long time here and they didn't grow up they first entered the school together with their two sisters back in two thousand and one however for a very short period of time in two thousand and two they left to the united states . or russia special services are also stress of the boston...
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russian forces killed him last december in dagestan. dagestani police have revealed to cnn this small-time militant ran training camps for bomb-making that foreigners came to. police gave us images of his group training in the woods. this one explains how to mix and prepare homemade explosives almost anywhere. and the group's pictures suggest they learned to use a mobile phone as a debtonater. >> translator: we do not have audio or visual confirmation, but we have information confirming that he met with foreigners. there are dagestanis who come here to meet in their historical mother land whose roots are here. >> reporter: could that have included americans? >> translator: it's entirely possible. but i know there were arabs and turks among them. but whether there were americans, i don't know. >> reporter: the police chief told us that abu dujan was observed coming here to this islamic mosque behind me which itself denies any links to extremism. it is possible, though, that tamerlan tsarnaev last year also prayed here. >> translator: of
russian forces killed him last december in dagestan. dagestani police have revealed to cnn this small-time militant ran training camps for bomb-making that foreigners came to. police gave us images of his group training in the woods. this one explains how to mix and prepare homemade explosives almost anywhere. and the group's pictures suggest they learned to use a mobile phone as a debtonater. >> translator: we do not have audio or visual confirmation, but we have information confirming...
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he apparently attended school in russia dagestan in the republic of dagestan eleven years ago we reached out to that school and they told us that the young man spent there is spent there a year and the family arrived there from kara just done in two thousand and one and authorities have told the media again that. the family arrived in the u.s. authorities here federal. told the media that the family. that those individuals were was in two thousand and three we i believe we have. we can we can play our conversation with. the school with someone from that school in dagestan we reached out to. involved in the first grade and after just a year he left the school and his family is from kurdistan they were full of children in the family this is and to drop in two thousand one hundred the school and in two thousand and two they left for the u.s. to. and again authorities here are telling reporters that they've apparently been here in the states for the last ten years or so so it's all very sketchy at this point we're going to get more details the suspect who was killed earlier tonight is report
he apparently attended school in russia dagestan in the republic of dagestan eleven years ago we reached out to that school and they told us that the young man spent there is spent there a year and the family arrived there from kara just done in two thousand and one and authorities have told the media again that. the family arrived in the u.s. authorities here federal. told the media that the family. that those individuals were was in two thousand and three we i believe we have. we can we can...
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nick robertson is in dagestan with an "out front" investigation. >> in dagestan, an inferno. moments earlier, a female suicide bomber noechb here as a black widow detonated a bomb at a police check point. minutes later, another blast. the following day revealed the horror. the black widow's brother driving a car bomb blew this truck apart. callous timing killing emergency service workers just as they arrived to put out the flames. a brutal conflict spilling over from neighboring chechnya as tamerlan tsarnaev visited his parents here last year. >> this is the same spot here. according to local journalists, for a while, police were too afraid to patrol. >> russel kadye, v, tells me russian authorities are handling the female bombers all wrong. >> it is a problem that's been around over a decade. involving wives of rebel forces. >> when a woman's husband is dead, she has no rights. she can't have a lover or boyfriend. she can't make any decisions. that's why, if she's rely joyce, she becomes an easy target for suicide recruiters. >> finally, in 2002, they took more than 800 host
nick robertson is in dagestan with an "out front" investigation. >> in dagestan, an inferno. moments earlier, a female suicide bomber noechb here as a black widow detonated a bomb at a police check point. minutes later, another blast. the following day revealed the horror. the black widow's brother driving a car bomb blew this truck apart. callous timing killing emergency service workers just as they arrived to put out the flames. a brutal conflict spilling over from neighboring...
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though the parents returned to dagestan last year while their sons and two daughters stayed in the u.s. while their mother lived in the united states, a picture is emerging of a woman increasingly disillusioned with her adoptive homeland. one of her clients said while she was a friendly and dedicated mother, she became increasingly allowed writing she thought 9/11 was purposefully created by the american government to make america hate muslims. she had never worn a hijab by working at the spa. and i was really surprised. then last june, tsarnaev was accused of stealing clothes. her arrest warrant is sdil outstanding. it was around this time that tamerlan also started taking a deeper interest in islam. investigators are now focusing on a trip he took back to russia last year. but at the press conference today, the tsarnaevs insist the trip was simply to see family and attend a relative's wedding. his father said it was impossible for him to meet with militanting during his six-month visit. >> i was the first reporter to speak with anzar tsarnaev just last friday. he insisted his sons we
though the parents returned to dagestan last year while their sons and two daughters stayed in the u.s. while their mother lived in the united states, a picture is emerging of a woman increasingly disillusioned with her adoptive homeland. one of her clients said while she was a friendly and dedicated mother, she became increasingly allowed writing she thought 9/11 was purposefully created by the american government to make america hate muslims. she had never worn a hijab by working at the spa....
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what happened in dagestan. did he go to chechnya, is that relevant, or was this all centered, perhaps around some radical extremists he met when he was in dagestan? >> reporter: you're right, piers. we don't actually know tamerlan tsarnaev met with radical extremists. we know from his youtube channel, he posted a link to a video of a now dead dagestani extremist called abu dujan, the local almost islamist mafia warlord to a degree, a group of militants who today i spoke to police about. they showed me video of them in the words training with weapons, dressed in camouflage, learning how to make explosives through videos. one photograph of how you would construct a mobile phone-based detonator for a bomb. the police chief also said to us this particular militant group had foreigners working with it who came here to learn. he said it included arabs and turks, to quote him directly there. and i said, could it have included an american, and he couldn't exclude that. he also said it may include people of dagestani or
what happened in dagestan. did he go to chechnya, is that relevant, or was this all centered, perhaps around some radical extremists he met when he was in dagestan? >> reporter: you're right, piers. we don't actually know tamerlan tsarnaev met with radical extremists. we know from his youtube channel, he posted a link to a video of a now dead dagestani extremist called abu dujan, the local almost islamist mafia warlord to a degree, a group of militants who today i spoke to police about....
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into the background of this have knives brothers has brought us here to this part of the capital of dagestan now this is the house where their parents left however as we try to reach them this morning it turned out that they fled to the neighboring region of chain to their relatives to avoid all the attention meanwhile this morning i managed to speak to the mother of the two brothers and she told me how devastated she is and that she still can't believe that her son may have been involved in the board makes out how nobody talked about . my son. or what they got involved in. you know. i really do believe that. he was told by a b i like fly by he knew that they knew what my son was doing they knew what action what type he was going how could this happen how could they were conjoined we. never ever heard this is not my sons are in and those neighbors we spoke to are shocks they said that it was a very nice and a very quiet family. i know the brothers very well from the childhood we used to live in chechnya together i was the neighbor then we moved here i know they couldn't have carried out the
into the background of this have knives brothers has brought us here to this part of the capital of dagestan now this is the house where their parents left however as we try to reach them this morning it turned out that they fled to the neighboring region of chain to their relatives to avoid all the attention meanwhile this morning i managed to speak to the mother of the two brothers and she told me how devastated she is and that she still can't believe that her son may have been involved in...
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what's happened in dagestan is russia crushed the revolt in chechnya. it's moved to dagestan. these people are extraordinarily vicious killers. kill children, kill innocent people, blew up a theater. you're dealing with extremely dangerous people. when you get information from the russians that this man may be connected to something like that -- >> that is unusual for the russians to do this. >> it is. i know they're saying when we get information, we get information, it is unusual to get that kind of information, particularly about -- particularly about -- >> rudy, also, with all your experience again, it's not likely, is it, that these two brothers have just got all this knowledge off the internet and the first time they try and let a bomb off, they let two bombs go off in perfect technique, perfect execution. >> impossible. >> it's not likely, is it? much more likely is that tamerlan, older brother, in dagestan, attended some sort of training camp. >> think about the aborted bombing attempts when trained terrorists weren't able to execute correctly, the detroit christmas mo
what's happened in dagestan is russia crushed the revolt in chechnya. it's moved to dagestan. these people are extraordinarily vicious killers. kill children, kill innocent people, blew up a theater. you're dealing with extremely dangerous people. when you get information from the russians that this man may be connected to something like that -- >> that is unusual for the russians to do this. >> it is. i know they're saying when we get information, we get information, it is unusual...
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who moved to dagestan earlier and became part of the chechen terror group. plotnikov was killed by russian authorities in july of last year. tsarnaev last the country two days later for boston. russian authorities asked the u.s. to investigate tsarnaev two years ago, but did not provide specific new details until after the marathon attack. president obama said today he's asked for a full intelligence review of what happened, but defended the performance of american law enforcement. >> based on what i've seen so far, the fbi performed what it's supposed to be doing, but this is hard stuff. >> they're investigating whether friends or relatives knowingly or unknowingly helped dispose of evidence in the days after the bombing. they're among the individuals the fbi still calls persons of interest. >> thank you, brian. and we saw the president in brian's piece. but he also weighed in on a lot of other subjects in a wide-ranging press conference today, taking some tough questions, including from our own chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl. >> reporter: p
who moved to dagestan earlier and became part of the chechen terror group. plotnikov was killed by russian authorities in july of last year. tsarnaev last the country two days later for boston. russian authorities asked the u.s. to investigate tsarnaev two years ago, but did not provide specific new details until after the marathon attack. president obama said today he's asked for a full intelligence review of what happened, but defended the performance of american law enforcement. >>...
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what can we read into what he may have experienced in dagestan? >> yeah, this is absolutely key, piers. while it is true that chechen insurgency ended, the violence move need dagestan and it is a place of great unrest. it is a mountainous society. it is muslim and the experience he had there would have absolutely drummed home for him the suffering of the chechen people as he would have received through family stories. we could put a face on it. there were terror attacks during the time he was there. whether he was glorying in those things or whether he he was making connections to actually islamist insurgence and learning skills, that we don't know but we know that psychologically these things were becoming normal for him. these things were becoming day-to-day occurrences because of where he was living. >> his brother dzhokhar is cl m claiming to the fbi that his brother coerced him into doing it. something you would expect him to say. but also they learned about this, their religious beliefs and how to make bombs from the internet and inspire bid
what can we read into what he may have experienced in dagestan? >> yeah, this is absolutely key, piers. while it is true that chechen insurgency ended, the violence move need dagestan and it is a place of great unrest. it is a mountainous society. it is muslim and the experience he had there would have absolutely drummed home for him the suffering of the chechen people as he would have received through family stories. we could put a face on it. there were terror attacks during the time he...
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the neighboring russian republic region of dagestan, where the father of the two brothers is living, is also having a problem with insurgency, with deaths being reported, killings, assassinations every month. this is an area that has a long legacy of violence. that said, the youngest of the two brothers, dzhokhar, he is believed to have come to america when he was 8 years old. he is not believed to have seen some of these awful things first hand. now, the older brother, we heard from a federal official, speaking to cnn, was 20 years old when he moved to the u.s., around 2004, he may have seen more. if you go to his -- what is believed to be his youtube account, for example, anderson, it is full of really links -- many of them to chechen nationalist causes and also islamist videos and causes, many of them in russian, and some of them he's actually writing in latin letters in russian making messages to other people. it did seem that he had become a devout muslim and was very concerned about muslim causes. we don't know about the younger brother who is still alive, if you follow his twi
the neighboring russian republic region of dagestan, where the father of the two brothers is living, is also having a problem with insurgency, with deaths being reported, killings, assassinations every month. this is an area that has a long legacy of violence. that said, the youngest of the two brothers, dzhokhar, he is believed to have come to america when he was 8 years old. he is not believed to have seen some of these awful things first hand. now, the older brother, we heard from a federal...
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in 2001 to 2006, we're talking about if he was in dagestan, he would have been surrounded by violence which began to spill over from the second war, and taking roots in this impoverished part of the world, attacks on policemen, and militants were fighting, and increasingly infiltrated by the extremist radicals. something russian security said is long talked about here, and it has been dismissed by some, and perhaps they would not have to enter into negotiations with them. a complex situation here. and if he remained here, he could have been influenced by that. >> as you talk about the swirling violence and extremism, and as you talk to people there in the capital, you have detected or are you aware of a kind of anti-american strain there in dagestan? >> reporter: well, there are three elements to this. disbelief certainly that the brothers were involved in the events in boston, and a strong russian nationalism, and you see many russians here, and the third element of course is how violence is continuing here. we have seen the radicals, and still outbursts here, and what used to be a p
in 2001 to 2006, we're talking about if he was in dagestan, he would have been surrounded by violence which began to spill over from the second war, and taking roots in this impoverished part of the world, attacks on policemen, and militants were fighting, and increasingly infiltrated by the extremist radicals. something russian security said is long talked about here, and it has been dismissed by some, and perhaps they would not have to enter into negotiations with them. a complex situation...
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find a proper job they have been moving from kyrgyzstan to change them back to kyrgyzstan later to dagestan where they spent just a bit over a year until they moved to the united states in two thousand and two now she showed us some pictures were taken during that time in some of them capturing those brothers in their early childhood and then one older brother is just over a year old now she's found a lot of time with the time of life and when he came to visit his parents to dagestan and she describes him as a really nice family loving and caring young man he talked a lot about his american wife katherine and about their daughter and when i asked her whether she expressed any acts or interest in islam she told me that his interest was never overwhelming the middle and wasn't a religious fanatic he was curious about religion he started to be really interested in islam about three years ago but he was never a radical who would talk about his commitment to religion but it wasn't extreme fighting much was devastated she remembers that just part of the younger brother plan to come to dagestan th
find a proper job they have been moving from kyrgyzstan to change them back to kyrgyzstan later to dagestan where they spent just a bit over a year until they moved to the united states in two thousand and two now she showed us some pictures were taken during that time in some of them capturing those brothers in their early childhood and then one older brother is just over a year old now she's found a lot of time with the time of life and when he came to visit his parents to dagestan and she...
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year old now she's found a lot of time with the time of law and when he came to visit his parents to dagestan and she describes him as a really nice family loving and caring young man he talked a lot about his american wife catherine and about their daughter and when i asked her whether she expressed any acts or interest in islam she told me that his interest was never overwhelming the middle and wasn't a religious fanatic she was curious about religion he started to be really interested in islam about three years ago but he was never a radical who would talk about his commitment to religion but it wasn't extreme fighting much was devastated she remembers that just part of the younger brother plan to come to dagestan this may and now their father plans to go to the united states to. see much can't believe they were involved in that tragedy. it's impossible to believe that they could carried out just impossible it's terrible but i can believe it there are children who respected the parents along with the middle and was very attentive to older people to his family for him have been was at his m
year old now she's found a lot of time with the time of law and when he came to visit his parents to dagestan and she describes him as a really nice family loving and caring young man he talked a lot about his american wife catherine and about their daughter and when i asked her whether she expressed any acts or interest in islam she told me that his interest was never overwhelming the middle and wasn't a religious fanatic she was curious about religion he started to be really interested in...
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it was done in dagestan. they show you how to make detonators, put these things together, wire them. whether they directed them or not, i don't know. maybe they didn't know about the attacks. but these people were too good at what they were doing to consider it just luck. >> if the young man knows anything he can trade the information perhaps for some kind of a deal. now that hz highway lawyers involved he will probably remember more things he was able to tell. >> people who have done this before do not coolly walk around the bomb scene before the bombs went off i would attest. it's just not normal behavior. we will leave it there. thank you all very much indeed. coming up, the suspect with possible ties to a triple homicide, including his best friend. that's next. #%tia[ [ male announcer ] at his current pace, bob will retire when he's 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire. but he's not. ♪ he's an architect with two kids and a mortgage. luckily, he found someone who gave him a fresh perspective on
it was done in dagestan. they show you how to make detonators, put these things together, wire them. whether they directed them or not, i don't know. maybe they didn't know about the attacks. but these people were too good at what they were doing to consider it just luck. >> if the young man knows anything he can trade the information perhaps for some kind of a deal. now that hz highway lawyers involved he will probably remember more things he was able to tell. >> people who have...